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IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND.

DAVID W. STUTSMAN; OF UPSHUR, 01110.

Letters Patent No. 59,803, dated November 20, 1866.

SPECIFICATION.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, DAVID W. STUTSMAN, of Upshur, Preble eounty, Ohio, have invented a new and usefu composition for the cure of bilious derangement, Whichcompcsition I call Fever and Ague Pills.

I take equal weights of butternut bark and Cayenne pepper, and, having reduced them to. a fine powder, blend thein intimately with twice their" united weight of beefs gall. Thismixture I place in-a stone jai immerse said jar in coldwater, which I raise to the boiling point and continue to boil until the mixtur assumes the consistency of thin dough or paste. 7 I then add of sweet oil sufiicient to enable the mixture to b worked and made up into pills of about the size of a garden pea.

I claim the composition for a fever and ague pill, composed and compounded as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

DAVID W. STUTSMAN.

Witnesses:

Geo. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN. 

